Alphabet associations - I

[greenilex]

I have to reply in the negative.

Therein it lies...

[Anna]

I have to reply in the negative.

Therein it lies...

Negative? No? So, that's a No then!

[greenilex]

Wrap it up then, Anna.

[Anna]

Wrap it up then, Anna.

I don't know it greenilex! I had a thought but it doesn't fit the clues and I'm offline now and will leave it to the others.

[Norfolk Born]

The sun has risen, as usual, in Suffolk...but I'm still totally in the dark as far as this question is concerned. Any chance, please, of a recapitulation of wherever it is we are?

[Norfolk Born]

Like Anna, I'm going offline now...let's hope I understand the answer when it finally arrives!

[antongould]

Are we talking No?

Like Rumpole's fixation on Nod(dy) I now cannot get No Regrets by the Walker Brothers (a trio) out of my stupid head....................

We the clueless await a clue............................

[Norfolk Born]

antongould: thank you for the 'we'...I feel a little less stupid now! Where on Earth IS greenilex?

[greenilex]

In Southampton.


Working backwards from the answer:

No, No, Nan etc is a musical.

"On yonder hill there stands a maiden" is an eighteenth century song.

The worst one first - Nessun Dorma means No body...

I too feel like a ghoul with no body, but I think that's just the MB speaking.

[Norfolk Born]

I don't really understand the link between the question and the answers (despite having a degree from the University of Southampton ).
I suppose the wandering eye refers to 'Oh No John, No John No'...but does the 'trio' refer to the three words in the name of the musical or to the original Three Tenors Concert at the Baths of Calacalla?
Just a mo....I suppose a trio member's breakthrough could refer to the change from 'No, No' to 'Nanette'...which leaves us with ....(sorry, my brain's seized up).
(The customary English translation of 'Nessun Dorma' is 'None shall sleep' by the way).

[Don Petter]

I see no gestures in those answers (except ones from frustrated solvers)?

[greenilex]

Well, parsing the word No is a trifle otiose and as a gesture I find it clearer.

Yes, I'm way too loose-linking for the game, but it was fun. Well done all. I think A

[greenilex]

.....Anna should have the next conundrum-setting privileges.

[amateur51]

I don't know it greenilex! I had a thought but it doesn't fit the clues and I'm offline now and will leave it to the others.

I dunno - what a shower! Mercia won't set them, Anna won't finish them, and I don't understand any of it ...

[Anna]

I dunno - what a shower! Mercia won't set them, Anna won't finish them, and I don't understand any of it ...

Well, my thought about the 'No' was that it was to do with Luigi Nono, but obviously it wasn't him. Norfy got the No No Nanette so perhaps he should set it as I'm not going to be around (and I still don't understand about the maiden on yonder hill)